Historicity of authoritarian and hybrid systems
Melinda Kalmár participated at the conference entitled Political regimes. Democracy, Autocracy, Dictatorship, which took place at the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Public Service. She gave a presentation entitled Authoritarian resilience. The Historicity of Modern Authoritarian Regimes. She emphasized that a combined investigation of the temporal and spatial interconnections of 20th-century centralizing systems may contribute to understanding the functioning of contemporary authoritarian regimes.
Football and globalization
Katalin Baráth gave a presentation at the Sports and Politics in the 20th Century conference, organized by the Institute of Political History and the CEU Democracy Institute, entitled „There is no ‘ours’ anymore”: a history of football and globalization, with a Hungarian accent. She pointed out what new opportunities research into the history of globalization offers for a historical approach to sport, including football. In addition to this, she discussed how Hungarian football joined the global network of football.
Visions of the future in the global coordinate system
Melinda Kalmár gave a lecture, entitled Long regime change. Formative Visions of the Eighties at the conference, Political Thought and System Crisis in the 1980s, organized by the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Public Service. The presentation emphasized that the regime changes in East-Central Europe were not isolated phenomena as the crisis as well as the compulsion to transform can be traced back to decades-long global impulses.
A tribute to László Karsai
A new book, entitled “Resisting Evil”, was published, containing papers presented at a conference held on the occasion of László Karsai’s 70th birthday. The book was launched today with the participation of Linda Margittai, the editor of the book, Béla Tomka and, of course, László Karsai himself.
Territorialization and the Austrian–Hungarian border
An international conference on the history of the Austrian–Hungarian border in the 20th century that took place in Szombathely commenced with a keynote lecture delivered by Péter Bencsik. The presentation comprehensively examined the characteristics of the western border area in the last century, its three main aspects were the issues of territorialization, border regimes, and violence.
Péter Bencsik's new book published
Péter Bencsik’s new book, entitled Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe has been published by Routledge. The book provides the first English-language comparison of the contemporary history of border regimes in Europe, which the author examines in the context of waves of globalization and territorialization.
Ágnes Tamás promoted to Associate Professor
Ágnes Tamás received the letter of appointment as Associate Professor from the leaders of the University on June 30, 2022. Congratulations to her on this recognition!
New book by Péter Bencsik
Péter Bencsik’s book, entitled From Demarcation Line to State Border has been published. The aim of the book is to approach the everyday history of the people living near the Trianon border in a micro-historical way, primarily through the conflicts of local society, also depicting the process of territorialization.
Melinda Kalmár's new book published
Melinda Kalmár’s new book, entitled Corporative, Soviet, Hybrid has been published. The book is a condensed and at the same time an expanded version of the author’s influential previous monograph. The book focuses on the global embeddedness and gradual softening of ‘Soviet variant systems’. The latter phenomenon also made these states the forerunners of today’s hybrid regimes.
Nomination of Béla Tomka as a corresponding member of the HAS
The Department of Philosophical and Historical Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences nominated Béla Tomka as a Corresponding Member of the Academy. His nomination was recommended by Gábor Gyáni, György Kövér, István Orosz, János M. Rainer and Ignác Romsics.